Yesterday we did some canning. Susan made zucchini pickles and I canned pickled jalapeños. This is the result of day-1 canning, plus our first eggplant of the season. SLicing tomatoes and Roma tomatoes waiting for processing into sauce. But the green beans and most of the cherry tomatoes are for eating later. By the way,Continue reading “The garden: part-3”
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How does the garden grow?
I think that we’ll be picking romas today. So, I see making tomato sauce in our future. Jalapeños have been making a lot of peppers. Yesterday I make pickled jalapeños, so it looks like we’ll have jalapeños this winter that are from the garden. Some of the figs, not yet ripe. It amazes me thatContinue reading “How does the garden grow?”
How does the garden grow?
Somehow being away for ten days has resulted in a garden bounty. Lots of tomatoes (cherry and slicing tomatoes), jalapeños, the first green beans and several very large zucchini. But even better is the huge number of roma tomatoes that will be picked later today. Also I now have over two dozen figs ripening. MakingContinue reading “How does the garden grow?”
Moth night in Paradise
Last night we spend over two hours with people who came to see moths. Susan, with some help from me did a presentation until the first moths and other insects started appearing. Amazingly, there were almost no mosquitoes. There were close to 40 people who attended the event. This included Stacie the first there andContinue reading “Moth night in Paradise”
Blueberry Festival!
This weekend is Blueberry Festival in Paradise, Michigan. Tonight as our contribution to the Friends of Whitefish Point, we’re doing a moth night at Saw Mill Creek Park in Paradise. It runs from 9-11:30 pm. If your’e in the area feel free to stop by, say hi and see some moths, as well as otherContinue reading “Blueberry Festival!”
Blueberry season
One of the joys of having property at Whitefish Point, Michigan is being able to walk out the door and pick blueberries. The down side is battling mosquitoes. However, male mosquitoes are pollinators, it’s only the females that are vampires. Blueberries at the back deck. With a bit of effort it’s possible to pick aContinue reading “Blueberry season”
It’s insect season at Whitefish Point
This is the time of year when insects start to dominate what we are seeing at Whitefish Point. That said, warbler migration is also in full swing – and what do warblers eat? Insects! Since we live on a sand dune antlion dens/burrows/pits are quite common. Young antlions are underground at eh center of thisContinue reading “It’s insect season at Whitefish Point”
Heading to Whitefish Point, Michigan
We’ve been in southern Michigan a long time and haven’t spent any time at the cabin in the north, so yesterday we packed up and headed north. It was an easy drive and we took the opportunity to stop at several places to look for favorite plants and animals. First we stopped at the restContinue reading “Heading to Whitefish Point, Michigan”
A nice garden visitor
Our garden is often visited by a variety of insects. This is important as they pollinate the plants. The most common visitors are bees and wasps. But there are also pests that eat the plants. Well, yesterday we had an unexpected visitor – a European mantis, aka Preying mantis/Praying mantis. We have these large insectsContinue reading “A nice garden visitor”
Garden produce – August, 2026
We were sitting on the deck eating breakfast and I was thinking about how much we have been getting from our garden. Every day we have a variety of tomatoes. Most of the cherry tomatoes go into salads or are just eaten from a bowl. We’re getting about a dozen in the morning and againContinue reading “Garden produce – August, 2026”
